Improvement in plows



,J. LANE. Plow.

No. 209,174. Patented Oct. 22 I878.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JoHN LANE, OF HYDE PARK, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,174, dated October22, 1878; application filed June 27, 1878.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN LANE, of Hyde Park, in the county of Cook andState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Plows,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a plowhaving my improvement attached. Fig.2 is a view of my improved plow-beamA, of the bar h k, and of the bar B. Fig. 3 is a view of dies with whichmy improved beam A is forged and shaped.

My invention relates to plows having a wrought-iron beam or standard;and consists in forming on the beam or standard, a few inches above thebottom end, a shouldered recess, in which a brace is secured with boltsbracing from the rear part of the land-bar the beam or standard in itsupright position, as

, hereinafter described.

A is a plow-beam of ordinary wrought-iron, having myimproved shoulderedrecess formed thereon, as shown. a is the recess formed on the rearedge, and outside, a few inches above the bottom end, I make it aboutsix inches, but it may be more or less.

The recess is formed by swaging down between properlyconstructed dies ashoulder and driving out the metal as a lip or recess, as shown in thedrawings at a in Fig. 2.

The lip or recess a is perforated for a bolthole, 6, as shown.

I sometimes cut ofi the beam at dotted line w x and use the upright partas a standard,

in connection with a wood beam secured to the upright part in the usualmanner of securing plow-standards to wood-beam plows.

In connection with my improved beam A I use a brace-bar, h k, which isformed of a single bar bent near its center of length at right angles,and the angle perforated and fitted to the shoulder and recess a, towhich it is bolted with a 'bolt in the hole 0. The bottom end or part 70is bolted to the rear part of the land-bar, and the top endor part I isbolted to the handle, making a bracing to the plow of great strength. WY

In some plows, as sulky-plows, in which handles are dispensed with andbar It is not required, I use the bar B instead of the bar h k. The barB is a straight bar, having one The recess a is shouldered down thethickness of the bar h k, as when it is bolted to the lip the outside ofthe beam and bar are level and smooth, affording no obstruction orroughness to gather trash clogging on the standard.

K K are a pair of dies for a drop-press, used- -in the ordinary mannerwith which I forge and form my improved plow beam or standard. W shows agroove or channel in the bottom die, K, of a shape desired for the beam,and H shows a swage-step on the groove W.

The beamis first curved to shape bya former on the side of the die K,and is then placed in the groove W, when the upper die, K, is let fallupon the beam, when the step H is driven into the metal, forming ashoulder and swaging thelip and recess a.

The upper die, K, is of a proper form to give shape to the curve andinside of the beam.

Having thus set forth my invention, I claim 1. The plow beam or standardA, having a shouldered recess, a, and consisting of a wrought-metal barforged and formed in dies, which give shape to the bottom end of thebeam or standard and swage the lip forming the shouldered recess a onthe rear side of the beam or standard, substantially as and forthcpurpose shown.

'2. The combination of plow beam or standard A, having shouldered recessa and bolthole 0, with the bar h k, in which the bar h k is made of asingle piece, bent curved to fit the shouldered recess 00, upon which itis secured by a bolt through the hole 6, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

JOHN LANE.

Witnesses:

FRANK W. BARKER, J osEPH N. BARKER.

